'INVINCIBLE' SYNDROME A REASON TO CONTINUE PLAYING
20 March 2009
Academic's research seeks reasons why losing
poker players continue to play
Jacob Avery, a researcher in the University of Las
Vegas’s fellowship program in gaming studies, delivered
the latest lecture in the Gaming Studies Colloquium
Series, titled “The Social Worlds of Everyday Poker
Players” last week, taking a look at why poker players
find it so hard to quit whilst winning.
Opining
that past research focused on the biomedical reaction in
gambling, Avery is trying a different approach in
observing how poker players reacted to situations and
interact with each other at the table. He set himself
three basic questions to address:
* Why do
people find it so hard to quit while winning? * Why
do people keep playing after they continually lose more
than they win? * Why do some people keep gambling to
or past the point of losing everything?
His
conclusions thus far suggest that once players win they
are overpowered with a feeling of invincibility. “The
feeling is that the momentum of the table has been
shifted in favour of the victor,” he explained.
With a major win under his or her belt, a player enters
into a self-negotiation phase to make the decision on
what terms he or she will stop playing. This may be a
decision to stop once they have doubled their money or
when they break even. But typically, the player
constantly renegotiates with him or herself and keeps on
playing.
A losing player will more often than
not continue to play, in many cases convincing him or
herself that their own bad judgement or play is not to
blame, but that the opponent has more luck.
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